it's nothing new - whether it's Japan over-spending on a super-man train or England's subway it's the same thing: government workers acting like a gorilla with a bannanna and the banana is your tax money.
metro in recent years has seen SEVERAL serious issues:
0) way over budget, and many metro workers taking cash from banks all over the region - fistfulls of cash and driving luxury cars
1) gov workers trying to abduct automobiles telling citizens "you can take the metro"
2) niggers trying to steal credit cards at payment areas
3) prices higher than cost of owning a vehicle and driving
4) people fired from GOV jobs because their GOV transit failed to be on time
5) in DC, the use of the metro as something to push "unwanted persons" in front of to dispose of bodies, always follwed by news the person "was depressed"
6)
severe accidents and casualties due to lack of maintenance
7) flat refusals when urged by Congress to "fix it"
8) refusals of management to leave after failure and after being told to leave
9) MINORITIES AND METRO WORKERS, OTHER "SPECIAL CLASS" GOV WORKERS ARE NOT PAYING FARES - they are on "special programs" that give them free rides. the rate hike IS FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY, not for the obama government cadre